{"id":141564,"date":"2018-12-01T08:27:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T13:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=141564"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:05:38","slug":"review-never-look-away-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=141564","title":{"rendered":"Review: <i>Never Look Away<\/i> (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/large_never-look-poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/large_never-look-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"597\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/large_never-look-poster.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/large_never-look-poster-67x100.jpg 67w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/large_never-look-poster-134x200.jpg 134w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/large_never-look-poster-268x400.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nMy review of <i>Never Look Away<\/i>, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (whose <i>The Lives of Others<\/i> won Best Foreign Film almost 10 years ago), is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/never-look-away-2018\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now up at Ebert.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I knew nothing about it going in, and in the final third of the movie, when the lead character starts to have his artistic breakthrough, painting what he wants to paint, I thought, \u201cHuh. Is this based on Gerhard Richter, I wonder??? The art looks familiar!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>There is value in not reading press notes because then you get to feel really smart when you put things together on your own. Here are some of the Richter works I reference in the review: <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/9119.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/9119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"673\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/9119.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/9119-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/9119-198x200.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/9119-396x400.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Motor Boat,&#8221; 1965<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19488.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"486\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19488.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19488-100x72.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19488-200x144.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/19488-400x289.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>&#8220;September,&#8221; 2005<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3667.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3667.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3667-70x100.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3667-140x200.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3667-280x400.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Erh\u00e4ngte,&#8221; October 18 1977 series, 1988<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3677.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3677.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-141570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3677.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3677-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3677-200x146.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/3677-400x292.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>&#8220;Arrest 1,&#8221; October 18, 1977 series, 1988<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\nAt any rate, lots to discuss. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/never-look-away-2018\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Go check out my review<\/a>, and definitely check out the film. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My review of Never Look Away, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (whose The Lives of Others won Best Foreign Film almost 10 years ago), is now up at Ebert. I knew nothing about it going in, and in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=141564\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2088,4],"tags":[1514,2546,1492,2668,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147891,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141564\/revisions\/147891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}